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Words of a drunk man

Posted in Funnyon Sep 11, 2008

I was watching one of those cop tv shows, where they were pulling over a drunk driver. That is where I heard this line:
I know my ABCs, I just don’t know them in alphabetical order!

Your social networking page may help you land or kill a job opportunity

Posted in Businesson Sep 11, 2008

According to an article at careerbuilder.com, 22% of their 3,100 associated employers will use social networking sites when researching a candidate for a position. This number is twice what it was a year ago, and will likely increase. Read the rest of this entry »

NBCOlympics gave away my email address

Posted in Technicalon Sep 11, 2008

Before the 2008 Olympics, I was at NBCOlympics.com looking for information. I noticed how they had a form where you could enter your email address to receive Olympic coverage updates or something like that. I entered the email address: nbcolympics@jacob…com.

I have an email system where anything@jacob…com will land in my inbox. That makes it really easy to give a custom email address to different people/sites so I can filter my email based on the TO address.

I didn’t receive a single email about the Olympics in all of that time. But I have received emails from Rotoworld.com about some sort of Fantasy sports thing.

What does this mean? The only person I gave that particular email address to was NBCOlympics. If I’m getting other email to that address, the only conclusion is that NBCOlympics sold off or gave away my email address to others.

Not that I’ll be bothered by the spam, because I’ve now switched all email to that address to arrive in a special spam email account.

Headers printing in Google Chrome

Posted in Technicalon Sep 11, 2008

I have a project which requires me to print from a web browser. Firefox wasn’t printing things very correctly, which prompted me to consider printing through Google Chrome.

Google Chrome did a reasonable job at rending the pages, but it has one problem. It wants to print headers on the top and bottom of all the pages including: the url, the page title, the date, and the page number. For my print job, I don’t want to reveal all that information, and I would prefer to print my pages without it.

In Firefox, I am given a Page Setup option from the File menu where I can customize headers, footers, and margins for printing. I cannot find any such option in Google Chrome.

Nokia N810 and Bluetooth

Posted in Technicalon Sep 10, 2008

The Nokia N180 Internet Tablet has built in Bluetooth wireless connectivity. Bluetooth is a protocol for exchanging data between devices within several feet distance.

When I connect the Nokia with my Windows Vista laptop, Windows reports the following services:

  • Audio Source
  • Headset Audio Gateway
  • Object Push (Obex)
  • Remote Control

I’m not really sure what these services are or how to use them.

The Nokia also shows up in “Computer” (along side all the connected drives) but clicking on the Nokia/bluetooth icon does nothing.

Nokia N810 and Wifi

Posted in Technicalon Sep 10, 2008

One of the connectivity modes for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is wifi… the same type that you would use on your laptop to access a wireless access point. The Nokia connected flawlessly to my home access point. However, in one of my class rooms, I couldn’t get it to connect at all.

My Windows Vista laptop identifies the access point security type as WPA-Personal with TKIP encryption. When I try to connect the Nokia to the access point it prompts me for a “shared key.” I input the access point password which is published (and used successfully on my laptop), but after a few seconds the Nokia comes back with “Network connection error.”

Acid 3 revisted

Posted in Technicalon Sep 8, 2008

In March I ran the Acid 3 web browser stress test against all the most modern browsers at the time to see how they performed. Since then, there are new versions of browsers which justify a re-run of the tests. Here are the results:

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 – 71/100
  • Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 – 79.100
  • Opera 9.52 – 83/100
  • Windows Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 – Too bad to tell. Perhaps 5/100?
  • Apple’s Safari 3.1.2 (525.21) – 75/100
  • Flock 1.2.5 – 53/100

All the web browsers were run on the same Windows XP system.

Then, out of curiosity, I decided to check the memory usage of each browser and found the following:

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 – 55M (After all add-ons were turned off)
  • Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 – 41M
  • Opera 9.52 – 27M (But then crashed on subsequent loads)
  • Windows Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 – 41M (But still couldn’t render the test at all)
  • Apple’s Safari 3.1.2 (525.21) – 41M
  • Flock 1.2.5 – 54M

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